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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 11 July 2022 - Queue to replace Johnson growing
Description: The race to succeed Boris Johnson as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister will begin in earnest this week as the rules of the contest are set out by the backbench 1922 committee.
At the last count, eleven MPs had thrown their hats in the ring. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is the clear favourite to win the race, with today’s newspapers proclaiming that the poll of the last two standing will consist of Sunak and one of the other ten.
One of the most significant debates is over taxation, with Sunak implying that those candidates pr...